David Talbot Quotes

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• I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.

  David Talbot

  Regret, Imagine, Salons

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• People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.

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  Thinking, Media, People

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• A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

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  Change, Political, Frustrated

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• I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.

  David Talbot

  Writing, Epic, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

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  College, Literature, Favorites Things

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• I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

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  Business, Teenager, Integrity

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• While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

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  White, Florida, House

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• I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

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  School, College, High School

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• I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

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  New York, Thinking, Important

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• I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.

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  Lonely, Thinking, Differences

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• Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

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  Two, Stories, Magazines

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• When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

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  Blessing, Media, Dollars

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• The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.

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  Years, Half, Lasts

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• After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

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  Change, College, Sound

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• Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

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  New York, Moving, Sleep

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• I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

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  Dream, War, Teenager

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• Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

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  Regret, Yes And No, Done

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• We upgrade URZ to a Buy; we see an entry opportunity with investors.

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  Opportunity, Entry, Investors

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• EFR entered into an agreement to sell some noncore assets for $2.05M.

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  Agreement, Assets, Sells

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• Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch.

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  Wells, Mining

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• FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

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  Discovery, Stories, Exciting

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• ...it is the Far Right today that establishes the terms of the nuclear debate. And in this context, in a room ringing with hysterical pleas on behalf of Reagan's eerie laser-beam technology, the MacBundys of the world seem eminently, refreshingly sane.

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  Technology, Eerie, Lasers

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• Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

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  Causes, Journalism, Profession

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• EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

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  Rising, Incredibles, Projects

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• We are upgrading UEX to a Buy rating; new CEO Roger Lemaitre changes everything.

  David Talbot

  Upgrading, Roger, Rating

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